Example sentences of "was [art] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some adjectives — notably superlatives , comparatives , and ordinals — appear to give a grammatically acceptable result when they occur in predicative position accompanied by an article : ( 16 ) Larry 's answer was the rudest Waddington Junior was a third [ e.g. boy caught cheating ] the rat was the other [ e.g. animal which solved the maze ] Analogous sentences with most adjectives would be quite ungrammatical , even though it would sometimes be easy to see what the sentence " ought " to mean , as in the first case of ( 17 ) for instance : ( 17 ) Larry 's answer was the rude [ e.g. out of those we received ] a red coathanger was the noticeable The reason for these facts is , ultimately , that the superlatives , comparatives and ordinals are unlike other adjectives in being inherently restrictive , and always presupposing what we may call an extraction set , within which the restriction is exercised . |
| 2 | It has been said that the mission to Dessau on May 28 was the roughest the Group ever experienced . |
| 3 | The gangly singer — who later admitted he was the worse the wear for drink — ineptly mimicked Kylie and her dancers for two embarrassing minutes . |
| 4 | I heard this on my way home ( from playing ) on Sat afternoon … that the game was the best the commentator had seen . |
| 5 | The commercial men resented thus having to create a negative image of their product , but this was the least the industry could do to allay government criticism that they were expanding more rapidly than resources allowed . |
| 6 | In the absence of a university college it was the nearest the Gold Coast had to an institution of higher education . |
| 7 | Hebbert was leafing through Hard Rock to re-live Great/Bow combination and just glancing at the Vember chapter , which was the nearest the book got to Curving Crack . |
| 8 | The White Paper was the first the public had heard of the discussions on full employment policy since the Beveridge report . |
| 9 | The resulting debate was the first the parliament has held on green issues . |
| 10 | There was just the erm Broomfield Staffield Tanys Dell erm Glebelands and that was the all the area that was built up when we came here . |
| 11 | Police said the house , at Little Chart , was isolated and a prime target for burglary , but could not comment on reports that the break-in was the eighth the home-owner had suffered . |
| 12 | She looked up and down the pool , then moved to the edge and trawled a toe to test the temperature to check that it really was the 82 the notice board on the way in had said . |
| 13 | Or was the furthest the inspector walked , asked the man ( who had the relaxed tones of an old-fashioned weekend hippy and said he was a representative of the people ) from the underground station to the office ? |
| 14 | The field for the 1986 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was the strongest the race had offered for years , adding up to the most valuable collection of bloodstock ever assembled fur a single race in Europe . |
| 15 | But it was the same the world over , she supposed . |